The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
TGIThursday! Today’s newsletter brings news from New York’s trucking industry, which is supporting a busway project that has been blocked by the feds on the false premise that trucks would not be able to use 34th Street once it’s cleared of private vehicle traffic.
Then go and check out the latest from Anna Zivarts about PROWAG, or the Public Right of Way Accessibility Guidelines. It’s a great start, Zivarts argues, but there’s still a way to go in improving accessibility — and that’s through reducing car dependence in general.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
